“named after a town,
want to make a difference,
ten and seven years old.”

Yes, I know I cheated and my syllable scheme and the word “haiku” is spelled wrong in my title. But bear with me, I have never written a Haiku before. So please, be merciful. I thought that “Hiiiiaku” as a title sounded clever since this is my first blog and I was kind of saying hi to my readers. And yes, confession, I did not realize that it was spelled wrong until after I wrote it on the third line and spell check informed me of my mistake.

But anyway, the fist line is self explanatory. I was named after a town in New Jersey where my mom grew up.  It’s really cool actually because people are like, “that’s a pretty name,” and I can respond by telling them the story behind it.

I want to make a difference is basically why I want to be a journalist. One of the people that Brian lamb called on to  interview on stage today and he asked her what they thought journalism was and she responded that it was basically the “voicing of issues and events that affect people who cannot speak about them for themselves.” I know it’s more than a little paraphrased but that’s basically what I got out of it.

Every summer since before high school I have gone on missions trips  and through those trips I have discovered what I want to do with my life. When I grow up, I want to be a foreign correspondent and travel everywhere, see everything, and write it all. I want to use my writing to help people in third world countries and war torn countries and basically everywhere else, and try to help make their lives better by informing people of what I have seen or experienced.

The last line was kind of random, but also kind of reminiscent of my last birthday. I went to this Japanese restaurant with my family and my boyfriend and the cook was all excited that it was my birthday. I told them I was 17, and he was like “oh you are ten and seven!” It was kind of a sweet memory from that day, and it sounded cool at the end of my haiku, so I just kind of added it. I also think that it is kind of deep, because it is like I am seventeen now, but soon I will be eighteen and I will be the start of all the wonderful things I want to do with my life. Kind of unintentionally poetic I guess.